Wine Industry News

  • Francis Ford Coppola's second career as a winemaker

    Film legend Francis Ford Coppola is on the road again, promoting his second career as a winemaker. Francis Ford Coppola is having a bit of a nightmare. This is the man who rewrote Hollywood’s rules when he directed The Godfather. Who for Apocalypse Now took on a subject as incandescently contro...
  • Hungary toasts Poland's EU helm with cask of wine

    (AFP) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday gave his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk a 15-litre cask of wine to toast Poland's six-month European Union presidency. "I have brought with me a cask of wine to drink to the success of the Polish presidency," Orban told reporters as he han...
  • A critique of wine criticism

    Doesn't it go without saying that an independent wine critic should not take payment from producers?There are certain subjects in independent wine criticism that you imagine would be beyond discussion: that anyone would be paid by a producer to write a review of their product is one. The fact that t...
  • China's Bright Food weighs Treasury Wine bid-report

    (Reuters) - China's Bright Food Group is considering a bid for Australia's Treasury Wine Estates Ltd (TWE.AX), Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The privately held company has had internal talks about making a bid, Bloomberg said. Officials at Brigh...
  • Vegan Wine Making Gains With Consumers

    Before you take a swig of that delicious Chardonnay to go along with your yummy Savory Vegetable Pot Pie, ask yourself: was this wine made in part with the swim bladder of a fish? Yea, I had no idea that most wines are “clarified” or “fined” – a process that, according to Voxy, removes ...
  • Red wine and weightlessness studied

    (UPI) - U.S. researchers say an ingredient in red wine, resveratrol, may prevent the negative effects that spaceflight and long exposure to zero gravity have on people. A report in the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology describes experiments in rats that simu...
  • US: New Jersey Wineries on the Brink

    New Jersey wineries are facing a very uncertain future today after a last-ditch effort to legalize their remote winery tasting rooms—for many of them their only source of sales—has failed to pass in the New Jersey state legislature. In December 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circu...
  • US: Global warming could affect wine growing

    (UPI) -- Global warming could significantly affect California and other premium wine-growing regions of the United States in the next 30 years, researchers say. Scientists at Stanford University said that by 2040, the amount of land suitable for cultivating premium wine grapes in high-value areas of...

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